He had heard those 'i don't hate you' words before. Last year when he had been given a detention but at that time, Kevin thought that he had been lying and always thought that the man did. Now, he said the same thing again and it made him stare and blinked a few times before stuttering out an answer. "I..uh...oh" he hated when that happened because it made him feel less powerful than he thought he was.

"Well, i don't..." he turned his gaze away and looked at the shelves instead. "hate you either, you know...never did" he had mumbled the rest of the sentence before he looked back again. "And i'm working on my behaviour around the staff at least. Flailsteed is helping me with it actually..." so yeah. That didn't mean he stopped using pranks and rudeness. The students weren't safe yet heh. Only a few days ago he had pranked a Ravenclaw in to getting a branch from the Whomping Willow. And the bloody idiot had done it.

Wait...WHAT? Zander hadn't gotten a detention but they had just talked?! "YA!" he yelled. It was a habit he was TRYING to get rid of but sometimes it just happened " I messed up my hate potion because of all that! I thought Zander had been in real trouble!" .........Had he just said that he was concerned for another person? Nope! nope he hadn't! except he did.

At the mention of him giving books to read, the Gryffindor groaned. Seriously? books? UGH. Even if they were potion books he could learn from just the thought of READING made everything boring. But he would accept the offer non the less by nodding his head a few seconds afterwards. Alright so the assignment it was. Kevin actually had the list with him in his robe pocket so he took it out and unfolded it. "Okay"

He stood up from the chair and walked to the table before placing the list down. He scanned it with his eyes and sighed heavily. "I hate potions that requires waiting!" He hated even waiting for two minutes let alone a whole week! "Is everything here in this room? I've never been in here before..."